The YouTube "Watch" Rabbit Hole...
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- Опубліковано 23 лип 2022
- Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time we take a look at what is believed to be a UA-cam easter egg when you remove the words "h" from the "watch" in any UA-cam URL. Why does this take you to a weird video? Let's find out! Thanks for watching!
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Further research also leads to the conclusion that the channel behind this used an older UA-cam vanity links feature to achieve this. Unclear but given how many older youtube features don't exist anymore and are depreciated (e.g. annotations) I wouldn't be surprised if this is some old UA-cam trick just being rediscovered. Cool easter egg regardless.
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Another trick about this--- If you're watching a youtube short on PC- if you erase "short/ and type in "watch?v= ", it will turn your short into a regular video, so you can then rewind, change speeds, go full screen, ect. ect.... An even shorter way to do this is to simply type any timestamp into the comments, and click it. ( such as 0:01 )Then it will redirect you from the short, to a standard video format again. If you like shorts, but hate the layout--- this will help you. Cheers.
Didn't know about the timestamp trick, thanks!! Shorts suck lol
You can also type the thing that says when a comment was created next to the users name and it will bring you to a normal video
Theres an extension that I use called youtube shorts block that replaces the "short/" into a "watch?v=" for you automatically for you in case you dont like the shorts ui
@ٴٴ wtf bro
Thanks for this
Honestly I'm glad that whoever did this didn't redirect you to a beheading video or some malicious shit, the video was spooky but not outright traumatizing for most.
yeah...just an old spooky myth with a link to a discord server filled with kids spamming slurs.
Mighty Talos is the only truth the way and life! Repent and come back to the one and only Talos.. prophecies are coming to pass that only the Mages of Skyrim have prophesied. Strong and Mighty Talos says the gate to Sovangarde is narrow and the gate to Molag Bal's Coldharbour is wide. It only makes sense to have one way to Sovangarde young ones, and that's through Talos! History proves Talos died and rose again. No other historical figure has done this. Mighty Talos is the way to eternal life, Mighty Talos conquered death with his voice and proved that there is an afterlife. Molag Bal is liar he wants you to believe there's Easier ❤️ ways to Sovangarde to throw you into confusion.. don't believe his lies trust only in Mighty Talos!!! REPENT AND OBEY MIGHTY TALOS STORMCROWN!! He's knocking on the door to your heart open and let him in. I love everyone so much to tell the truth.. but most importantly Talos loves you more. He will cast out those who have sinned, the Dark Elves, the argonians, and the other sinners.
yeah it’s kinda fun-like spooky creepy pasta not snuff film
it's still UA-cam
the second video on the guys channel is age restricted and has some stuff in it
I remember in the days of past UA-cam, when the algorithm didn’t really exist. No matter what part of UA-cam you started on, no matter what videos you clicked to watch next, you’d always end up on the dark side
Sorry for being pedantic but the algorithm has always existed. You wouldn't be getting recommendations if it didn't.
I think the reason why you don't end up in the dark side now is because youtube has gotten truly huge. Back then you could easily run out of related content so you would be recommended more obscure videos.
@@xristosxi393 , At first though, they were mostly recommending trending or popular videos, as well as general subject matter categories that tended to be sought after a lot (animals, cats, funny, pranks, etc). That was simple enough to do without an algorithm, just look for certain stats & shove that in users' faces. Simple periodic scripts with certain shuffle/random/priority routines attached could do that, with occasional updates by humans, then by automated process to keep up with trends faster.
It was largely dictated by videos' tags. Until people began abusing tags to the point they became useless, thus they had to come up with new ways to identify video content. So they put more emphasis on the title & video description. Then eventually due to copyright pressure from entertainment corpos, audio & video fingerprinting.
The algorithm came into being at some point when the site was getting bigger & more content necessitated more specific matches to user preference, which scripts just couldn't do anymore. It was very rudimentary when it was first implemented, because the technology was new. So it was easy not to notice.
Then it became more advanced over time, to the point that it's now pervasive & more skilled at figuring out our watching habits. When it got a big upgrade in the 2010s somewhere-ish, it had growing pains when they set loose a new advanced version, but it was very mechanical & ignorant & had to use our habits as feedback to learn. We were unpaid lab rats enduring frustratingly irrelevant & even insulting suggestions for years because it didn't understand nuance & context. But now, it seems to have found its stride & does a good job (in my opinion).
Well, except one problem: This past year or so, it's starting to get WAY too insistent on showing me stuff I've already watched a bunch (I guess it figures me watching repeatedly means I ALWAYS want to watch it again? Like, no, when I'm in the mood I'll look for it myself or open the playlist it's on. I wish there was an option to choose "new suggestions only"...
Now if only the Search function actually friggin' worked in terms of relevance to search terms, instead of still using the darn algorithm & trying to be relevant to my tastes only. Sometimes I want to find something new, step out of my echo chamber, etc! I'm getting so many repeat suggestions barely related to my search terms. Come on Google, y'all started as a search engine! Let us use 'quote marks, plus, & minus' to impose 'verbatim, include, & exclude' functions like we can in the search engine!
(And don't get me started on trying to search a user's channel for particular videos, even with a single word query. Most of the time you get absolutely random crap.)
Dunno bro, once in a while youtube shows me some truly horrible stuff when i search something. So, only time it happens for me is when i use search bar. Then, for some reason, sometimes i get some trypophobia videos, or videos of disturbing stuff in general. Like someone missing huge chinks of their skin on one of the bodyparts and stuff like that. And, unlike main page recommendations, you can't block channel or ask to show less stuff like that without going to video. And if you go to do that from video page itself, YT ignores the fact that you went there to block content like that and algorithm will force more videos of that sort on you. At that point i always delete my history. Seems to help for a while, then cycle repeats.
There was a time when youtube didn't give you recommended content based on your watch history, only content related to whatever video you were watching. The front page was exclusively trending videos and your subscriptions.
These are both technically algorithmic, but--as im sure you know--when people refer to *the* algorithm they're referring to a process where the platform makes an effort to predict what you'll want to watch next based on your watch history/subscriptions/likes/etc.
@xristosxi393 an algorithm existed. THE algorithm (the current, more personalized algorithm) didn't exist
if you edit the url and change "watch" to "short" it takes you to a video about Karens, equally as scary in my opinion
i was redirected to page Just A Bit Of White lol
@@RevO-OneIt took me to a video of rude Karen's getting what they deserve lmao
Why is this actually true though?
@@skilledcamman4752 karen conspiracy’s
I made a video about it on my channel
UA-cam is ridiculous when it come to ‘rabbit holes’ while watching legit videos much less the crazy af ones💯
i just found a different rabbithole if you remove the w-c-h out of "watch" so makeing it "at" theres a bunch of other channels you can find
@ٴٴ Ok Karen
@@Shan-rb5rl bro you've only got 3 videos, and a whole guy being dead equates to that?
@@kidnamedfingor they’re bots bro, just report them. They’re really bad on moist critikals vids too
@ٴٴ huh
People keep talking about how it should've been a rickroll, but honestly Username666 is such a gem that it being turned into a sudo-real Easter Egg is a joy to see.
Edit: Oneshot is a phenomenal game and it's spelled pseudo, aight, we good now?
I agree
Niko
Ikr
@@sonetagu1337 Niko
good pfp
you can replace the "t" with a "g" to get a rick roll
Thank you for this information
u can also replace it with 5 i think but im not sure i saw it on tiktok and dont own a pc anymore so ye
@@fuiii_ can confirm, except it redirect you to a channel instead of a video
Oh lord it works
thanks for this lmao
"404 not found"
the "easter egg" died at this point
rip
edit: the "short" url still works, and so does the "wat" url
so does wath
Man, i can't believe how many people around the platform today doesn't recognize nana. I knew it immediately. His art style is very distinct. UA-cam666 was huge for years.
I FUCKING KNEW IT! I KNEW IT LOOKED FAMILIAR!
@@nerdtendo128 same
@Kal El It's not.
@Kal El I would like to see you explain why is it AI generated
@Kal El it's still his art. And it's a style.
It’s hilarious imo just imagine a kid accidentally erasing the h and seeing that. Absolutely H U M O R
did you mean "umor"?
@@Delayrix tumor
@@Delayrix no he got blown up last week :/
what
yeah definitely a nice prank to do if pulled off right lelz
i love nana's minecraft series so much they went in with 0 info. they've self taught everything about minecraft.
This is the first video I've seen from you after hearing about you from all over the internet, and this was super interesting and informative! You earned a subscriber.
Speaking as a web developer this was a good watch. It highlights the importance of testing, and how to code for url arguments. I agree that it's hard to know the ideal outcome without seeing their code base, but I have to believe this is ultimately down to some logic gaps that could be plugged (if they wanted to spend the resources doing so).
I hope they don't. It will make so many kids day to do this at 3am at a sleepover
@@Norogoth Fr-let there be fun and mystery and creepy pastas in the world
What are you on about? it's all working as intended
Heh… more like a good watc.
I've always found it astounding how many tech companies just don't cover their bases with this stuff. As an example, Doordash has had a partially broken app for years, with tons of people getting so much slowdown and glitchy behavior on their end as to make the app unusable, even being forced to miss deliveries or leave them incomplete. For me it gets to the point where I have to Force Stop the app between 2-6 times per delivery order. That shit is inexcusable, and I've heard it's because they outsource development and cycle regularly, so nobody gets a good understanding of the whole code base enough to make meaningful changes that'll fix its foundation. Eventually the wobbly tower has to be reinforced, be redone and fixed entirely, or fall.
Probably the worst glitches I've had were being directed to the wrong house in the in-app embedded Google Maps GPS system. Usually I can get around this by canceling navigation and re-engaging, but usually I don't even find out I'm going to the wrong place until I'm at the destination it brought me to. This has happened to me a decent handful of times, and I've read other stories about it too.
Remember when u were supposed to put fmt=15 at the end of the url to get better quality, and it freakin worked?
LOL, good ol' days
This was so well explained! This was my first video I watched on your channel, I've subbed!
sometimes I like to think these kind of things aren’t glitches and someone at youtube just decided this should be an easter egg.
Same, especially that the channel was formed mere months after the creation of youtube
it's actually a url trick anyone who has a youtube partnership can do
they can make a link to redirect to any channel or video I think
which is still weird but it's not yt themselves making the easter eggs lol
@@AlexEEZ i know, i said sometimes i LIKE to think those kinds of things are just things someone at youtube decided to make an Easter egg, not that i do legitimately think that.
@@lunar9333 well, it technically isn't really glitch either but that's fair ig
@@revenger211 Doesn't mean much, my original account was made sometime in summer 2005. Lost access to it though. This the second account I've ever made. Most old accounts have no association with anyone who still works there. The original dev's don't work there anymore lmao.
this is the weirdest fucking glitch i've ever seen on this site. bloody impressed.
It's not a glitch. Removing the "c" or "h" leads to a channel called 666 & removing the "a" leads to a channel called 69. That's no coincidence.
I know they will, but I hope they never patch it. It's so fun.
Not a glitch. It's literally custom user URLs.
@ٴٴ you're not even a good troll lmao
@@foeof If it is a custom channel URL, then why does it go to a video and not the channel?
9:55 gave me a good laugh, it came out of nowhere but I'm from the Netherlands and Albert Heijn is a Dutch supermarket. I never in my life expected to see their advertisements on your channel, accidental sponsor.
Ik was aan het zoeken naar deze comment❤
@@FlashingDutch Het duurde maar een jaartje.
@@rafox66 maar de comment was er wel
This video is so strange. The editing, your speech patterns, your movements, the cinematography. For example: "Of course, they're located all the way in Spain." The location was never mentioned before or after that sentence. Every statement is accompanied by 'of course' which makes it seem like everything is obvious to you, or at least expected.
Great to see the creator of username 666 is still out there and doing fuck shit on youtube. Havent heard about that thing for a couple years at this point.
Nana lowkey makes the most unsettling content on the internet, there's nothing that beats their work.
@@RealValkor Shaye Shaye St. John?
@@ElisandroDeLeonyou still doing that hand thing?
he just plays minecraft and has an ant farm now lol he’s awesome
Fr
Just saw this like 2 days ago, was wondering if someone had an explanation for this. Thanks Muta!
But it still doesn’t explain how an outside user actually managed to do this or what method they used because fiddling with stuff should produce a random result yet both c and h removed go to that video leaving us all wondering but why
@ٴٴ this has to be a joke
@@tybell4949 Those aren't the only combinations that lead to that video. IIRC, replacing the 'h' with 'j' also redirects you to that video. And ofc, other combinations can lead to other videos. I don't think the 666 user did anything intentionally, I genuinely believe they got incredibly lucky when their video's unique ID was generated.
@@rajmundseidel6035 it's a bot
@@VOgaming51official coool
I immediately recognized nana’s work… they’re so good at what they do!
Nowadays, it just returns "page not found".
You know its a good video when the red lighting and calming voice hits
Was just thinking this is the red light it's gonna be a banger
This is his usual voice i dont see how its calm, i get hes energetic at times but still
@ٴٴ i'm sorry? What are you doing?
When does calming voice not hit?!
:)
"Dark UA-cam Rabbithole", music to my ears. Missed that Muta from back in the day.
Exactly! Also, merhaba abi.
Izledigini biliyorduk da bu kadar delisi oldugnu bilmiyorduk hocam, keske sen de good old dayse donup su canli yayinlari podcast kesitlerine benzetmeye calismasan
@ٴٴ who hurt you 🗿🗿🗿
Creepyasta/Dark Web Muta is best Muta
@ٴٴ wtf
This also works if you change "watch" to "wathc"
if you replace watch with wdtch it gets more creepier
Love how this man keeps me armed with the most random facts
Why isn't this blowing up yet
Is that the real g fuel
G Fuel when H gasoline walks in:
H gasoline when J diesel walks in
Hey G Fuel. Never had any of your products. Send me some ;)
Explanation of how this works:
It's making use of 2 channels, 1 with a username of 666 and another with a username of watc.
When you remove h from the url, it can't parse the query string (the part after the ?) anymore, as it's a query string for the watch url. So instead, it tries to open the profile with the name watc.
UA-cam channel settings allows you to set a redirect URL for a specific channel, so what this user has done is have the channel of watc redirect to the video uploaded by user 666.
That's it really.
EDIT: it works when you remove the c as well because the channel wath is set up the exact same way.
this only works if watc has the ability to remove the /c, that way the redirect can have /watch in it
I don't know if this is it, as /c/watc is a channel by itself called "/c/watc", when it should redirect you to "watc"'s channel page.
It's nuts.
I changed the language settings to Japanese and I get a completely different channel coming up.
@@SpencerLemay It broke earlier today, actually. I tried it and just typing 666 takes you to an error page as it did previously.
i tried typing in watc2 and i got sent to a channel with a crap ton of twitter links???
For people who are familiar with programming, imagine the /watch URL as a function and everything after the question mark as the arguments. You're basically calling the watch function with the argument v set to a specific ID. The backend code, whatever it might be written in, then retrieves that specific video stream resource from a database and embeds it in the watch page and sends all of that back to your browser. If you share a video from a certain timestamp, you'll also see the t argument in the URL. So the watch function can take the t argument set to a specific string (I think "xhxmxs" where x are numbers) which then tells the backend to include information for the browser to start the video at that point. The URL then looks like /watch?v=(some id)&t=4m2s.
Source: trust me bro, I'm a web developer.
Its incredible how confidently off the mark you are
@@legeorgelewis3530 I implement these things every day. It's funny that you claim I'm off the mark without even trying to explain how.
@@legeorgelewis3530 He's not wrong at all tho?
Ok, useful but this doesn't explain the watc thing
@@Zyjem Muta did a great job of that. I just thought I'd add some explanation for the actual mechanism for people who are already familiar with some rudimentary programming.
Makes me wonder if ancient channels may have a sort of backdoor access. Like, channels from UA-cam's pre-Google foundation who have control over parts of UA-cam through the URL or some other backdoor change they could use to possibly even overwrite google as "Old Guard Administrators" who still retain some form of admin privileges.
It's not terrifying, it's just some DMC red orbs having a good time
it’s developing fetuses
i thought it was baby heads
Midnight calling
we need a rickroll version of this thing
Nah
there is, Just replace the a in watch with d.
@@antonisgkalitsis4400 speechless rn
YES
@@antonisgkalitsis4400 oh God! That's awesome
“And of course…” you won’t be able to unhear it now.
After you explained it, it made a lot of sense. This was really interesting and I enjoyed this video.
I can explain it by the way: URL redirection to "channels" works by altering the data where "watch" is. "Watch" is considered a channel page that hosts as a base template for all UA-cam videos. Video IDs written past the "watch" or "channel name" variable are considered "watch" IDs of the channel name aforementioned. So, if my UA-cam channel has one video with ID 'af0d0sa0', and someone writes '/vlad?v=afff,' the closest video ID to 'afff' is 'af0d0sa0.' Then, my 'af0d0sa0' video will load. Now, this is weird because it is a key-value round error. UA-cam never fixed this bug! So, effectively, the ilumuo guy didn't do anything crazy except abuse the directory manipulation settings on UA-cam API.
EDIT: Someone fixed these API bugs. Rounding still works with JUST the base template 'video.'
I suspect iluomo is actually a UA-cam employee and it's quite possible considering he's the 40th oldest channel on the platform. If you check when his channel was created it was in April of 2005 just a week after the first video was uploaded. Or he just did some hacking work so that it said his channel was created in 2005.
@@erectilereptile7383 I think he's possibly an auditor of the UA-cam API.
yeah this doesn't make any sense
Dude ur wording is so unclear that it doesn't make any sense to me
Mighty Talos is the only truth the way and life! Repent and come back to the one and only Talos.. prophecies are coming to pass that only the Mages of Skyrim have prophesied. Strong and Mighty Talos says the gate to Sovangarde is narrow and the gate to Molag Bal's Coldharbour is wide. It only makes sense to have one way to Sovangarde young ones, and that's through Talos! History proves Talos died and rose again. No other historical figure has done this. Mighty Talos is the way to eternal life, Mighty Talos conquered death with his voice and proved that there is an afterlife. Molag Bal is liar he wants you to believe there's Easier ❤️ ways to Sovangarde to throw you into confusion.. don't believe his lies trust only in Mighty Talos!!! REPENT AND OBEY MIGHTY TALOS STORMCROWN!! He's knocking on the door to your heart open and let him in. I love everyone so much to tell the truth.. but most importantly Talos loves you more. He will cast out those who have sinned, the Dark Elves, the argonians, and the other sinners.
I was waiting for you to cover this to find out what the deal was. Thanks!
As people mentioned, now it redirects to the Sub confirmation prompt for a channel called IHP (probably the old Iluomo, but renamed), created on 2005. It doesn't have any public videos, all it has is a playlist with the name '/\ucifer', another with the name 'FMA', and the description says 'Coming soon...' and a discord server ending with six66. Looks like an ARG, or an attempt at one to me.
yea, I'm sad i missed out or the random video spawner, now all I get is a sub to a barren channel
I always like when you break things down for me. I am of the age that acknowledges that it isn't magic, it is just a sleight of hand. Sometimes you just want to know how you have been tricked.
Worded like a true master of the arcane magics
This comment reads like a either 12 year old wrote it or a 60 year old
Have a drink whenever you hear Muta say "of course" 😂
Well damn, if ya want me to die, just say so. Lol
@@JustinTK416 🤣 true true, I couldn't tell if he was trolling or if he really didn't realize how often he used those words
I'm obsessed over how the fuck they got a channel page to redirect to a video, especially one with such a long ID string.
I still keep my old channel name before they fucked around with Google+ and made every new channel have a long-ass string of random characters, but I have both enabled.
I guess it goes to show how UA-cam is just a 17 year old house of cards built atop a jiggling jenga tower on a rheumatic horse having the shakes.
I remember Googles “i feel lucky” Button, anyone else? i believe we types some Numbers or something and then there were some crazy ass videos fr
That old video from 2008 really takes me back. Really wondered back then if it was possible
Chadwick Boseman is in the grave while i make amazing content 🤣🤣
@@Shan-rb5rl What the fuck?
@@Shan-rb5rl dude. Go outside.
To be a little clearer, the "watch" part of the url is known as the path, which is followed by the query (?) to the (v) function that takes in the video id as a parameter. No matter what the url is, when you send a request to the path that the glitcher has their video on, it will redirect you to that page because the server stops being concerned with the query when it finds the matching path.
To be even clearer, the /watch URL is the function. v in this case is a keyword argument for that function. Although the UA-cam system might be built differently, that's how it works, for example, with PHP Codeigniter. If you route to a controller and use a slash, you have direct access to the methods of that controller by putting the name of the method after the slash.
Disclaimer: I am a web developer but I'm pretty new to it, so this might just be me being uneducated. I'm not claiming that this is the one and only truth since there are so many development stacks I haven't worked with yet. Open to corrections always.
v is actually called a search parameter (or query parameter) and it has the video ID as its value. Many web servers have the convention that the path corresponds to a certain file or function and that the search parameters are the arguments, but the server can use whatever logic it wants. The only times I can think of that the search parameters are actually used by the browser is when submitting a form (by default) and when determining if a cookie is accessible or if a cross-origin request is allowed.
Saw this on your subreddit while i was on a train with a friend and we checked it out
"This page isn't available. Sorry about that.
Try searching for something else."
oohhh scary.
OooOOooOh youtube fixing thiiings! The horror of people not thinking about that!
This happened to me sometime a few weeks ago, I was watching the short video on PC and tried to change it to watch format (i.e. by typing the url manually from shorts?= to watch?=) and it sent me to that bizarre video. I was stunned and I was wearing my headphone so I panicked and closed the tab immediately. Later that day I was trying to show my brother about this hidden youtube videos but I typed the watch correctly and the video from the url I typed plays normally. He called me out on it and for a second I thought I had gone nuts and was seeing things. Thank you Mutahar for resurfacing this and reaffirms me that what I saw was indeed , for lack of a better word, an intended feature.
Kagetin bang sodaranya 🗿
not intended
This is almost as creepy as Muta ending up at the youtube page of the Dutch supermarket I frequent. Why the Albert Heijn page?
lekker eten
@@BlendyCat kanker duur
Tbh I expected something far more horrifying. This only takes me back.
this video going around and spooking the younger folks warms my heart
lol
Thank you for this video! I stumbled upon this mystery yesterday on Reddit, and was way too big of a coward to check what was going to happen - so showing it with an explanation of why, this was just perfect 👏
Just went to these pages on mobile. It took me to an account called IHP which looks mysterious, and like it's regularly changing. Their subscriptions are all mysterious-looking four-letter strings too. I JUST refreshed it and before that, it said something like that there's a hint hidden in the profile - now it's omitted, and it just says "Coming soon..." and a Discord invite which is six66.
People will have to investigate this :P
yes i noticed now too
That was interesting.
And you're good at teaching/ explaining
hola! here's a "basically", "absolutely", "literally", "actually", "of course", "effectively" & "situation" counter. Why am I doing this? Effectively, because basically, it's actually, absolutely, literally distracting, of course, when listening to him talk about these situations.
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strangely, he never says this in the video D: unless I missed it.
Another thing I found strange on youtube is when a video repeats itself for a split second before continuing. It's likely a playback error, but I can't help but think of the deja vu scene in the matrix where a repeat is an alter of the future.
It's neither an Easter egg nor anything mysterious. It's just how URLs work. Someone named their channel handle "watc". That's all it is.
It’s so funny seeing people just now discovering this
You can add breakpoints to browser events from the dev tools in major desktop browsers. If the redirect is client-side, you can catch it. Also probably shows in page history.
Surprise! There's more (but not from a coding or technological point of view). If you go to the comments of the "watc" video, sure 99% of them are just spam and unrelated, but the pinned comment is important. It's a link to a discord server. The server itself doesn't matter, what *does* matter is the message it brings up before you join. "Yop has invited you to join a server." The oldest video posted on the iluomo channel is titled "Yop was here" and it's just 3 minutes of lowfi music with the word "yop" written in white against a black background. Who is yop? What are they doing?
Aaaaaand now I'm creeped out D:
ARG TIME ARG TIME
And this is possible because of channel redirects apparently you can redirect past or current live streams and redirect it to a premier or any video.
These channel are with custom URL 'watc' is a channel URL that redirects to the video. When removing the h or some other letters it doesn't detect the URL as a video it descards the rest of the URL and goes the the channels custom URL and they have there channel redirect to the video. Other channel names short, wath, wach, wtch, atch & maybe others
I'm pretty sure whoever is doing thid is one of the founders of youtube or one of the first employees. The channel is as old as youtube itself, so it must be some easteregg made to mess with people. Specially that early days of UA-cam were filled with tons of easter eggs
don't make this seem that big
I'm surprised I haven't stumbled upon this by mistyping because on youtube shorts I always replace the "short" with "watch" in order to watch it like a normal video.
This hit me with nostalgia like a truck! old good creepypastas man... good times
Removing h from watch or c from watch truly leads you to squid game
SQUID GAMES❗️❗️
@ٴٴ what
I hope UA-cam doesn't do anything about this. It's a neat little exploit (idk if that is the right word)
more of a glitch tbh
Not an exploit or a glitch.
I doubt they will. They're not gonna change the whole process of how they create URLs
@@foeof It's a feature and also try 2atch someone made this happen to me
@@sabersz well the only thing they'd have to change are those specific slashes for them to lead to a 404
Muta's "now, of course" meter is through the roof
For people trying this now, it's gone but something similar can happen with "ch"
What if this existed years ago and we only just found out now?
thats usually the case with these sorts of things
The video you get redirected to was uploaded in 2022 so
It existed since 2022 March
@@TheAtomicPunkLmao Yeah but the redirect existed then
ASMR = Actively Seeking More Ranch
This might be the longest explanation I have ever seen for "non-query pages ignore queries"
It now brings us to a channel called IHP.
Went on my phone to mess with the URL when I saw the thumbnail, I’ve never been so shocked before cuz a UA-cam poop video came to fucking life 😭😭
The pause before “hopefully that’s the case” was kinda suspenseful, you should make your own horror content sometime muta!
@T J I bet he could pull it off
@@godspeed-is-taken he already did a horror series like a decade+ ago
@@achu-7941 he covered horror concepts but didn’t make horror content per-say , imagine muta making an horror arg about a computer virus taking over the world or something along those lines.
I thought you would cover this sooner? I found this out over a month ago lmfao great video though
I was just recommended this video by the algorithm, tried a couple of things like "watc" and was disappointed to see that it had been fixed. then I tried "wath" and it redirected me to a video uploaded just yesterday! it seems like this trick is back, and the algorithm has taken notice and is already telling people to come check out this video again. pretty interesting how UA-cam ends up automatically telling on itself
You explain things so smoothly. 🙂
man back in 2008, we would've lost our shit over this.
I just did this and it took me to a livestream of kids with everyone in chat yelling at them for exploiting this bug lol.
Looks like the channel hosting the creepy vid just got taken down within the last 30 minutes (5:30-6am est). It is now redirecting to "This video is no longer available because the UA-cam account associated with this video has been terminated."
I was actually able to watch the vid once, and then when I refreshed it was gone
oh thank you for reassuring me that im not crazy
nana's minecraft vids are actually very nice! he provides subtitles in both english and japanese. i highly suggest his lets plays
It's amazing watching him learn the game with out help, things that seem obvious to us is out of sight to him
@Abby maybe that ones a fake account but I do know nana does play minecraft on his channel, I watched it a few years back
Interesting! By the way I was experimenting on my own and I think I found another UA-cam glitcher.
If '/watc' is the shortened version of a custom channel URI, then the complete URI must be '/c/watc'.
But what's interesting is that that channel is different and has a Official Artist Channel Tag next to its name, has no videos uploaded, and has a connection to iluomo as well.
it got updated
removing C or H takes you to a channel called vgoa with only 1 vid from 15 years ago which looks like a photo dump of a bunch of friends at a party or something
removing W, A, or T takes to an account (notice how I say account not channel) named IHP with no vids, a description that reads "coming soon", and seems to be affiliated with vgoa
You're welcome
As a backend dev, my only assumption is that certain custom url broke the endpoint routing from one of the youtube's API, im sure this can be fixed but it will take a while for an enterprise as big as youtube.
Man, I use to see that video years ago. Nostalgic.
I love watching mutahar while locking myself in my room during family vacation. thank you muta
This is eerily similar to my current situation.
if you remove the c from watch it redirects you to the about part of IHP, gives you a discord link, with above it saying "Coming soon..."
Doing it right now just takes me to a channel called IHP and makes me subscribe to them, so nothing like that happens anymore?
Wether this is an accidental arg or if it's purposefully crafted. It's really interesting that an embedded feature like a url can be manipulated to direct you towards different areas of the site.
Um... urls can usually be manipulated to direct you towards different areas of most sites.
@@moistp1ckle did you figure that out by yourself 🤓
Might have something to do with live streams, since the channel link would redirect to a scheduled/running live stream, if one's available
It don't it's a feature
Oh that makes a lot of sense. The way the UA-cam URLs have worked have always been a mystery to me.
Ahhhh URL hacking. Good stuff.
Things get even weirder if you keep paying attention to the URLs you go to every day. (I'm looking at you Meta-stasizing Facebook.)
Thanks for the awesome video!
Drinking Game: Take a drink every time he says "Of course"
Since this video was made (not necessarily uploaded), "/atch" and "/wach" have both been taken by the Minecraft video. Either UA-cam has broken more since, or this can be easily reproduced if you know how, and it can be reproduced with an already uploaded video.
Edit: After a bit of quick research, it seems as though this is done by causing a "303 See other" redirect response chain, ending on the video link. "/watc" responds with a "303 see other" redirect to "/wathc", which responds with another "303 see other" redirect to the 666 video.
A fun fact from the research: "/wathc" seems to have redirected to the "Yop was here" video from the iluomo channel before redirecting to the 666 video, and redirected to a "nick roll" before redirecting to the "yop was here" video. This also shows that this redirect chain can be manipulated after the original redirect.
Some further research on the wayback machine shows that at some point between April 09 2022 and April 22 2022, the redirect changed from the "yop was here" video to the 666 video, and (based on the pinned comment of the "yop was here" video), at some point between July 02 2021 and July 11 2021, the redirect changed from the "nick roll" to the "yop was here" video.
@Funny Show Seems suspicious with the additional mega link segment at the end of the video link. That could just be a thing to scare people looking closely at links, but I wouldn't want to risk it regardless.
Fun fact: "c/2atch" goes to a channel called "spellingwatchewrong" with 1 "members only" video, and one related channel, which happens to be the channel with the video that "/2atch" redirects to.
@@Fluicitea the funny show account seems to be connected with this
i mean just look at their uploads
as of 28th of july watc and wath are being redirected to the channel IHP
I knew someone was gonna cover this at one point or another
I love how the comment on the creepy video is jusy lyrics from songs, epic
nana is such a joy to watch. I'm glad he's still relevant even though he's now doing his own thing.
Pretty sure it's just another harmless easter egg. Username666 is one of UA-cam's golden treasure so no way the devs wouldn't give a bit of acknowledgement.
But the problem is, why does whtch redirect to a random minecraft montage?
That sounds unlikely. I think it's pretty much just what Muta is explaining in the video. Also if this is true then why does it also work for a minecraft bedwars christmas montage.
It was harmless, until the discord link.
That’s where things did not become harmless
@@FirestarDoppelganger what discord link?
@@slowyourroll1146 on the 666 video.
For some reason, every time I get rid of the H from "watch", it just leads me to an about page of a channel called IHP, the channel does not have videos, but the about page says "Coming soon", and a discord invite link, the invite link lead to a server called "666".
same here
UA-cam seemingly removed it recently. Man this was cool.
damn
@wch Bro is in a rampage to Rick Roll everyone out there
This is similar to how searching “.” makes weird, creepy, and unusual videos pop up
Soo... Its nothing to do with unicode. UA-cam used to have a option to redirect to a video if a channel is accessed directly from a URL. This has since been hidden. I belive this can still be done via some API calls depending on when you youtube channel was created is the decider to if you get a 403 responce or a 200 responce from the API. If you want to deep dive into this more maybe find a old API docs link and put it into the waybackmachine, It may uncover more.
Interesting
Yep, this. My account is from 2006. I think they classify it as a "brand" account now or some odd shit.
How old is that feature? I really wanna set up something like that.
Notice, how he is convinced about this "invisible unicode hack". Despite the fact that manually replacing or deleting individual URL characters like that doesn't introduce any unicode outside plain ASCII. For a moment dude looked legit though. Shame...